František Lexa (1876-1960) was a

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Egyptologist Egyptology (from ''Egypt'' and Greek , '' -logia''; ar, علم المصريات) is the study of ancient Egyptian history, language, literature, religion, architecture and art from the 5th millennium BC until the end of its native religiou ...

. Lexa began his career as a secondary school teacher. Having learnt the

Egyptian language The Egyptian language or Ancient Egyptian ( ) is a dead Afro-Asiatic language that was spoken in ancient Egypt. It is known today from a large corpus of surviving texts which were made accessible to the modern world following the decipher ...

by himself, he became the first person to translate and publish Egyptian texts into

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in 1905. Lexa spent the rest of his career at

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, first as a private senior lecturer of Egyptology in 1919, then an associate professor in 1922, then Czechoslovakia's first Professor for Egyptology in 1927, and finally the first director of the Czechoslovak Institute of Egyptology in 1958. Lexa's students included Jaroslav Černý and

Zbyněk Žába Zbyněk Žába (June 19, 1917 – August 15, 1971) was a Czechoslovak Egyptologist Egyptology (from ''Egypt'' and Greek , '' -logia''; ar, علم المصريات) is the study of ancient Egyptian history, language, literature, relig ...

Works

* Papyrus Insinger (in French, Librairie orientaliste: P. Geuthner, Paris; 1926) *Výbor z mladší a starší literatury staroegyptské *Náboženská literatura staroegyptská *Staroegyptské čarodějnictví *Obecné mravní nauky staroegyptské *Grammaire démotique *Veřejný život ve starém Egyptě

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Lexa, Frantisek 1876 births 1960 deaths Czechoslovak Egyptologists Burials at Olšany Cemetery Scholars from the Austro-Hungarian Empire Charles University alumni

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